That also may be so, but 35 years is fucked up for that. pretty sure child porn first time offenders is like 15 to 30 so hacking MIT for stuff that should have been free gets you more jail time then a first CP offence. OK thats fucked up
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SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world 5 months agoThat may be so, but IIRC he was charged with breaking into their networking room and illegally tapping into their network to get the articles:
K0W4LSK1@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 months ago
He was a defender of child porn though.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Assuming this is actually by the guy, here is what the linked article says about child porn:
In the US, it is illegal to possess or distribute child pornography, apparently because doing so will encourage people to sexually abuse children.
This is absurd logic. Child pornography is not necessarily abuse. Even if it was, preventing the distribution or posession of the evidence won’t make the abuse go away. We don’t arrest everyone with videotapes of murders, or make it illegal for TV stations to show people being killed.
Wired has an article on how these laws destroy honest people’s lives.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
Child pornography is not necessarily abuse.
Yikes.
Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
An image of an event is not the event. That’s the reasoning there. There’s some sense of logic there, though the knowledge their abuse is used by pedophiles can absolutely be a continuing trauma for the victims.
K0W4LSK1@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
OK a reason to not like him but sending him to prison for his views that he didnt act on sounds like fasicm lol I dont agree with his views just saying
rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
I hacked my highschool servers when I was young and shared the upcoming exams, so everyone could prepare for them. Someone told the authorities, all I got was some extra exercise. Sure it wasn’t MIT, but still 35 years is ridiculous, even a year of prison would have been ridiculous.
RGB3x3@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Well that’s definitely burying the lede from the OP.
It wasn’t the sharing part they had a problem with, it was the B&E and hacking.
refalo@programming.dev 5 months ago
still… 35 years? obviously there is more missing information.
nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 5 months ago
It wasn’t 35 years, it was 6 months with a plea deal
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 5 months ago
It’s not that clear cut and I would recommend listening to the Behind The Bastards episode about him: Behind the Bastards: Part One: Christmas Hero Episode: Aaron Swartz
omny.fm/…/part-one-christmas-hero-episode-aaron-s…
Dkarma@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Most of these guys they just offer jobs to. This was needless. No wonder China is kicking out ass on the cyber front
Thorry84@feddit.nl 5 months ago
The whole criminals getting job offers has never been true and will never be true. For many of such jobs you aren’t qualified if you have a criminal record, even small offenses disqualify you.
K0W4LSK1@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I mean thousands of war criminals were offered jobs after ww2 so I doubt they would care about a little red tape just hire them into the black no one needs to know
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Ah my sweet summer child…how wonderful it must be to live in your world.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s still a hell of a sentence for a B&E
meliaesc@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Mm. Breaking and entering to share publicly funded research is different than B&E with the threat of violence…